A lot of people put their names on their shirts so that people can cheer for them along the way. However, there are a lot of people out there that find the cheering gets really old really fast.
One option is to put your names on a piece of duct tape so you can take it off if it starts to get annoying.
Keep in mind that almost whatever you put on your shirt, expect to hear it the whole as people try to cheer for you.

At the Indy Mini last weekend a friend who had just run Boston was telling me she had a conversation about this with some other runners at Boston. It was their feeling that people who WATCH races love to cheer the runners on. But they noticed that if the person has his or her name on the shirt that no one really yells it out. But when they have the name of an organization on the front?for example: their college, their company, their military branch, TEAM IN TRAINING, favorite sports team, etc. then people will yell that out and cheer them on. Depending on the city your race is in, you might want to be careful with the sports team thing. In the Indy Mini there was a water stop that was being run by a bunch of diehard Indianapolis Colts fans (they even had a big blue Colts fire engine parked there). As I ran by I jokingly yelled ?Go Patriots? and they drenched me with water.

Dan


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When the going gets tough...sprinters quit.

I run mostly to see things, to explore places I don't know. And the places I do know ..., then I get a sense of the weather, the shifting light, the seasonal changes; it can be pleasurable even when you hurl yourself into the teeth of nature.
Ed Koren
Runner and Cartoonist, New Yorker magazine